In recent years radio controlled cars have increasingly
become smaller and more dynamic. Even on a micro scale their parts can be
upgraded for better performance.
Key upgrade features usually include motors, tires, dampers
and other precision parts. The characteristics of your car improve and are
distinct with each additional upgrade and tweak. You can even gain some
advantages on various tracks and courses if you know how to tweak your RC just
right. That is why serious racers take such a great deal of time setting up
their cars. Kyosho’s Mini-Z has helped
take micro sport places they’ve never been before. Despite the significant
success created by Mini-Z fan base has
dwindled and new releases for cars have been lagging. Will Kyosho redesign this
product from the ground up? How will it evolve from here? One thing for sure
they will have to release a whole new fleet of auto scale bodies of current
cars to ignite new hobbyist. If that doesn’t spark up the interest what will?
If the guys
from Anki have anything to do with it they just might set new standards for
future indoor racing. Anki is an artificial intelligence co. They just released
a new product called Anki Drive, which are micro RC cars with AI built in. If
you haven’t heard of them you soon will. They took first stage at Apple’s
summer 2013 product event announcement.
You can learn more about them on the web.
So what does that have to do with anything? Well if you
could imaging being a driver and the race manager at the same time you could
tell your car to overtake maintain a good lap or watch out for cars that are
seconds behind. This is just the beginning
of Anki’s enterprise but the technology behind it has potential. We can only
wait to see how this unfolds.
